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Coming to Theaters Summer 2011: The Alien in the White House
You thought the Kenyan birth theory was weird — now Dorothy Rabinowitz contends Barack Obama is an alien!
Oh, wait, I misread that. She means “alien” meaning outsider or unfamiliar figure, not an extraterrestrial: “A great part of America now understands that this president’s sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.”
Then again, the Spock comparisons come along awfully frequently.
Writing at Legal Insurrection, William Jacobson commends Rabinowitz for articulating what has been at the tips of many tongues as the character of his presidency has been revealed: “There is something deeply unsettling about Obama’s conduct of his presidency, having nothing to do with birthplace, race or religion . . . I sensed this problem coming back in October 2008: ‘Barack Obama loves this country, in his own words, because nowhere else could his story be possible. John McCain loves this country just because. And that’s why I’ll vote for John McCain.’ Unfortunately, there are no do-overs. So we just have to win in November and two Novembers after that.”
If you’re looking for a dose of pessimism, try the Belmont Club: “Rabinowitz is only half correct about the alien part. President Obama comes from a mighty nation. From the viewpoint of that people, it is Rabinowitz who is alien. She is looking through the wrong end of the telescope. If she tried seeing herself through their eyes she would see herself as the problem. There is a country in which people like Helen Thomas happily thrive and it is widespread, influential, powerful. It may outnumber or eventually come to outnumber the nation which Dorothy Rabinowitz thinks is ‘out there’.” However, he does manage to work in a reference to the classically schlocky hidden-alien-invasion movie, They Live.